Don't give up on the rifle so easily! I spent the day at the range yesterday with my .300 Win Mag and 180 grain bullets.
My rifle does not appear to like 180 gr Accubonds! I tried several loads and RL22 gave the best results, but 6" to 7" groups at 200 yards is not good enough for me.
Luckily I had purchased some 180 gr Partitions as well and loaded a batch up for testing. Thankfully I had them with me and tried them. I am shooting groups just under 2.5" at 300 yards with this load combo in my rifle. This is off a sand bagged rest at my gun club so it may even be better than that! It ended up being the same powder charge of RL22 as I had loaded the Accubonds over so I'll pull the Accubonds and swap them out with 180 Nosler Partitions and go kill Elk!
A factory Remington tube that will give me sub MOA results with Partitions is making me smile!
Try swapping bullets before giving up on the rifle!
